January 16: Donghui Zhu, PhD (Stonybrook): “Amyloid beta glycation leads to neuronal mitochondrial dysfunction and Alzheimer’s pathogenesis via VDAC1-dependent mtDNA efflux”
February 15: Sandeep Robert Datta, MD PhD (Harvard): “Using Machine Learning to Discover How the Brain Builds Behavior“
February 20: MichelleJones-London, PhD (NIH/NINDS): “An OPEN Conversation: NINDS Strategies for Enhancing the Diversity of Neuroscience Researchers“
February 27: Yimin Zou (UCSD): “Planar cell polarity proteins in glutamatergic synapse formation and maintenance“
March 12: Keri Martinowich, PhD (Johns Hopkins University): “Cell type and spatially-resolved multiomic approaches for understanding human brain disorders”
March 19: Anubhuti Goel, PhD (UC Riverside): “Neural Mechanisms of Distractor Attenuation“
Fall 2023
September 26: Xiaoke Chen, PhD (Stanford): “Integrative analysis of descending pain modulation”
October 10: Bogdan Bintu, PhD (UCSD): “Applications of MERFISH Technology: Insights into Neurogenesis and Huntington’s Disease”
November 6: 2023 Symposium Featuring: Dr. Edward Callaway (Salk), Dr. Wei Xu (UT Southwestern), Dr. Alexis Bouin (UCI), Dr. Don Arnold (USC), Dr. Orkide Koyuncu (UCI), Dr. Tim Shay (Cal Tech), and more.
November 27: Hongyi Li (Cal Tech): “Engineering Viral Vectors for Acoustically Targeted Gene Delivery”
November 28: Hyungbae Kwon MS, PhD (Johns Hopkins Medicine): “Tagging and Controlling Active Neurons”
December 5: Andre Obenaus, PhD (UCI): “Neuroimagine of Alzheimer’s Disease Rodent Models”
Summer 2023
July 25: Weijian Zong, PhD (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): A Hybrid All-Optical Method with Miniature 2P Microscope for Studying Spatial-encoding Circuit
July 18: John Crawford, MD, MS (Children’s Hospital Orange County [CHOC]): Precision Medicine in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
August 21-24: 2023 CNCM Conference:Structure, Function and Development of Neural Circuits
Spring 2023
April 6: Alex Kwan, PhD (Cornell): Visualizing drug actions on dendrites: from ketamine to psilocybin
April 11: Greg Horwitz, PhD (University of Washington): Color and luminance processing in the macaque primary visual cortex
April 18: Daniel J Sigwart, PhD, (University of Texas, Southwestern): The present and future of mRNA lipid nanoparticles (LNPs): From COVID-19 vaccines to Selective Organ Targeting (SORT) gene editing
April 24: Qing Nie, PhD (UC Irvine): Multiscale spatiotemporal reconstruction of single-cell genomics data
April 26: Fangyuan Ding, PhD (UC Irvine): RNA regulation at the single molecule level: from nuclear organization to molecular activity
May 3: Yi Zuo, PhD (UC Santa Cruz): The dynamic brain: Understanding the synaptic basis of behavior
May 10: Wei Li, PhD (UC Irvine): Computational Biomedicine: Epigenetics Liquid Biopsy and Alternative Polyadenylation Therapy
June 13: Richard Bazinet, PhD (University of Toronto): How diet and the liver help to maintain a healthy fat brain
June 21: Vikaas Sohal, MD PhD(UC San Francisco): Long-range GABAergic projections from prefrontal cortex and gamma synchrony
June 27: Qiaobing Xu, PhD (Tufts University): Organ and cell selective delivery using synthetic lipid nanoparticle for gene therapy and gene editing
Winter 2023
January 5: C. Dirk Keene, MD, PhD (University of Washington): Co-hosted with UCI Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (MIND)
January 10: David Olson, PhD, (UC Davis): Psychedelics and Related Plasticity-Promoting Neurotherapeutics
January 17: Mehrdad Shamloo, PhD(Stanford University):Noradrenergic Modulation of Behavior, Neuroinflammation and Pathology in Brain Disorders
January 24: Meng Zhang, PhD (Harvard): A molecularly defined and spatially resolved cell atlas of the whole mouse brain
February 08: Zhaoxiao Yu, PhD (UC Irvine): Applications of mixed-effects models for more rigorous neuroscience data analysis
February 22: Hermina Nedelescu, PhD (Scripps): Neuronal ensembles for opioid-motivated approach and avoidance
February 28: Sheng Zhong, PhD (UC San Diego): Toward a blood-based biomarker for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
March 8: X. William Yang, MD, PhD(UC Los Angeles): Decipher Molecular and Cellular Complexity of the Mouse Brain with Novel Scalable Tools
March 21: Michael Bruchas, PhD (University of Washington): Decoding Heterogeneity of the Locus Coeruleus Noradrenergic System in Arousal and Stress
Fall 2022
September 28: Dr. Peyman Golshani, MD, PhD (UC Los Angeles): New Open-source tools for imaging neural activity in freely behaving animals.
October 4: Dr. Rongxin Fang (Harvard):Analysis of Cortical Evolution with Specially Resolved Transcriptome Imaging
October 11: Dr. Sean Foxley (University of Chicago): Probing neural tissue microstructure with postmodern MRI
October 25: Dr. Li Zhang Director of the Center for Neural Circuits and Sensory Processing (USC): Neural circuits for valence coding, emotional states, and motivated behaviors
November 4: Dr. Takaki Komiyama (UC San Diego): Motor cortex circuits for learned movements
November 8: Dr. Trygve Bakken (Allen Institute for Brain Science): Cellular diversity and evolutionary specializations in human neocortex
November 10: Minisymposium, Psychedelics and Neuroplasticity
November 17: Dr. Yongsoo Kim (Penn State): Neuronal and non-neuronal cell type mapping in the mouse brain
November 18: Julio Licinio, Md, PhD, MBA, MS (State University of New York Upstate Medical): The epigenetic reader Plant Homeodomain Finger Proteins 21B(PHF21B) regulates social memory, associated behaviors, glutamatergic neurotransmission, and synaptic plasticity- related genes in hippocampus
December 5: Georg F. Striedter (UC Irvine): Evolutionary Conservation versus Change in Brains and Other Biological Systems
Summer 2022
August 11: Dr. Patricia Cogram (Universidad de Chile): Opportunities for New Insights into Alzheimer’s Disease from the Octodon Degus and Other Non-Traditional Models
August 15-16: 2022 CNCM Conference: Linking Brain Function to Cell Types and Circuits
Spring 2022
April 5: Dr. Jianhua Cang (University of Virginia): Visual Processing in the Mouse Superior Colliculus
May 10: Dr. Jonathan Ting (Allen Institute for Brain Science):New opportunities for primate cellular neuroscience in the era of single cell genomics
June 14: Dr. Xiaoyu Shi (UC Irvine) and Dr. Weian Zhao (UC Irvine)
Winter 2022
January 25: Dr. Joshua Trachtenberg (UC Los Angeles): Population drifts and the refinement of neural circuits in postnatal cortex
February 22: Dr. Bosiljka Tasic (Allen Institute): Cell types of mouse cortex: definition andexperimental access
March 1: Dr. Edward Zagha (UC Riverside): Neural mechanisms of target stimulus selection and distractor stimulus suppression
Fall 2021
September 21: Dr. Hong Wei Dong (UC Los Angeles):The mouse cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic network
October 26: Dr. Cris Niell (University of Oregon): Neural circuits for natural vision
November 9: Dr. Mark Andermann (Harvard University): Dopaminergic regulation of mating drive and associative learning via persistent cAMP signaling
December 7: Dr. Guang Yang (Columbia University): In vivo studies of pain-related changes of neuronal activity in the peripheral and central nervous system
Summer 2021
August 3: Dr. Nathan Insel (University of Montana): Social uncertainty, expectations, and rostral cingulate cortex.
April 20: Dr. Orkide Koyuncu (UC Irvine): Alpha-herpesvirus neuroinvasion: Deciphering the long path toward latency.
May 4: Dr. Sylvain Williams (McGill University): Using optogenetics to reverse memory deficits in Alzheimer mouse models and revealing the underlying mechanisms.
May 18: Dr. Hu Zhao (Texas A&M): Complete Mapping of Individual Sensory Nerve Axons from Adult Mouse Digits to the Spinal Cord at Sub-Micron Resolution with the Transparent Embedding Solvent System
June 1: Dr. Haijiang Cai (University of Arizona): Neural circuits for feeding regulation, the return of the amygdala.
Winter 2021
Jan 19: Dr. Anne Churchland (UC Los Angeles): Single-trial neural dynamics are dominated by richly varied movements.
Jan 26: Dr. Michael Jacobs Goard (UC Santa Barbara): Visual influences on the representation of the local environment in mouse neocortex.
Feb 2: Dr. Aaron McGee (UL): Genetic and circuit mechanisms to close critical periods for neural plasticity.
March 30: Dr. Wei Xu (UTSW): The neuronal circuits that coordinate memory encoding and retrieval
Fall 2020
September 22: Dr. Bing Ren: Applications of Single Cell Epigenomics to Neuroscience
October 13: Dr. Daniel B. Aharoni (UC Los Angeles): Developing new tools for imaging network dynamics in freely behaving animals
November 10: Dr. Gina Poe (UC Los Angeles): Sleep to reframe your perspective: neural mechanisms at work to reconsolidate memories in light of new information.
Dec 14: Dr. Minhua Luo (Wuhan Institute of Virology): Herpesviruses: Neuropathy and Transsynaptic Tracers.
